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The markings on that pup are incredible. Is he/she perhaps a future Jonathan? Please post this pic on the Jonathan-the-Husky FB page!

 

[uconnell]

Toupee dog ? Really, really cute.

 

[J187Money]

Youre missing the bigger picture 187. Our athletics crumble and what's it do to our enrollment? Will there still be record numbers applying? Will housing and retail continue to grow in storrs/mansfield? All of those pay taxes. If we can continually pack the xl could it pay for repairs and upgrades? Would an upgraded xl attract other sports and entertainments? Its not just on the surface. This is important on multiple levels. We, as a state, need uconn to produce top level employees into top level, local business. Attracting young and intelligent people to the state is crucial to turning our economy around.

I'm not missing the point.

Hate to point this out, but ALL of the history and success of the school came without UCONN being a football power. I'm fairly certain that the number of UCONN applications having anything at all to do with UCONN football is a number that rounds to zero.

I know that money is an issue, and I'm not #goingfullnelson here because I LOVE UCONN Football. BUT, let's not pretend that the $2-3B that has been spent on UCONN's campus over the last 25 years has anything to do with the football team. And men's and women's BB - the real catalyst - pay for themselves. And even if they didn't, they aren't expensive sports to maintain.

I didn't want to go to UCONN in 1989 BECAUSE it didn't have a D-1 football team. I ended up there, under duress, because it was cheap and I was a middle child and my parents were struggling with sending my brother to Wisconsin (where we grew up) and my sister was 3 years behind me.

We all want it - and I think we deserve it - but you could kill the football program in its entirety and it would be like a tree falling in the forest...

 

[Hoophound]

That a little harsh j187money. I am a basketball fan through and though, class of 95'. I played high school basketball, I went to UConn camps as a kid and I am from a family of UConn alumni. None of them loved UConn football, but I do. I'm the first to follow UConn football as an FBS school and I have to admit, I'd trade a basketball NC for a football NC in a heartbeat. If football rules the day, we need to play it and win at it. There is no going back on FBS football. I can't go backward if it means killing football. No number of basketball titles will ever make up for having a major football team.

 

[J187Money]

That a little harsh j187money. I am a basketball fan through and though, class of 95'. I played high school basketball, I went to UConn camps as a kid and I am from a family of UConn alumni. None of them loved UConn football, but I do. I'm the first to follow UConn football as an FBS school and I have to admit, I'd trade a basketball NC for a football NC in a heartbeat. If football rules the day, we need to play it and win at it. There is no going back on FBS football. I can't go backward if it means killing football. No number of basketball titles will ever make up for having a major football team.

Doesn't mean it isn't true. And I'm on your side. But the fact that we have 20k+ students and you can't get 2k to a game proves that they didn't come to UCONN for football.